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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/29/07 7:35pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Annunciation" by Lorenzo Lotto - Date Edited: 6/29/07 7:36pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "Diana and Actaeon" by Titian c. 1556-9, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, on loan from the Duke of Sutherland This picture illustrates a fable by Ovid, wherein the goddess Diana bathes naked in a cave, and is surprised by a young huntsman, Actaeon, whom she transforms into a stag. He is then torn to pieces by his own dogs. Originally owned by Philip II of Spain, one of six painted for him by Titian.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/30/07 6:49pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Diana and Actaeon" by Titian
	"Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints and Angels" by Veronese c. 1564, oil on canvas, San Sebastiano, Venice This shows a group of saints--San Sebasian, St. John the Baptist, St. Peter, St. Francis and Catherine of Alexandria, adoring the the Virgin and child. Another altarpiece. Unfortunately, I could only find an image of the top half of the altarpiece.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/7/07 11:51pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Virgin & Child in Glory with Saints & Angels" by Verone - Date Edited: 7/7/07 11:58pm (3 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1565, oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Originally one of six (five survive) panels illustrating the changing season. This picture was probably matched compositionally to the early spring panel, "The Gloomy Day", which looks like this: The other survivors are: "The Hay Harvest", "The Grain Harvest" and "The Return of the Herd" The missing panel probably involves planting or ploughing.
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-deeperfasterharder- Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 7/8/07 12:01am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Is Bruegel from the Dutch school? -----signature----- Enthuse me or lose me.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/8/07 12:26am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Flemish, I think.
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-deeperfasterharder- Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 7/8/07 1:12am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Heh, Flemish is what I meant. Was there even a distinct Dutch school? I don't think there was... -----signature----- Enthuse me or lose me.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/8/07 10:27am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Yes, but later. Anyway, since I love winter landscapes, either painted or photographed, this is favorite.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/18/07 11:52am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	I love Bruegel. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 8/7/07 10:14pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Next: "The Last Supper" by Tintoretto c. 1579-81, oil on canvas , Scuola di San Rocco, Venice Unfortunately, I was unable to find a jpg of this particular painting. This is another version by the same artist: This is a handsome picture, and it has some similarities with the book illustration, but the book version is much more eccentric, and I think, better. The table is seen on an axis, with Christ alone at the end, picked out in a nimbus of light.
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-deeperfasterharder- Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 8/7/07 10:15pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: ""Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
	Mannerist power! -----signature----- Enthuse me or lose me.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 8/8/07 8:57pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Last Supper" by Tintoretto
	Next: "The Lute Player" by Caravaggio c. 1595-6, oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg This is a male, believe it or not. One of a series of pictures painted on music. Great technicial skill shown in the foreshortened lute, and still life elements: the point is the fleetingness of youth and beauty.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 8/16/07 10:26pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Lute Player" by Caravaggio - Date Edited: 8/16/07 10:29pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Next: "Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber" by Juan Sanchez Cotan c. 1600, oil on canvas, San Diego Museum of Art From Wiki: "Sánchez Cotán never included humans beings in his still life paintings. Nor did he depict many of their artifacts, other than the strings from which vegetables and fruits dangle, this being the common means in the seventeenth century of preventing food and vegetables from rotting. Even if the objects are arranged so that they seem close enough to touch, they are nevertheless distanced. For all the realism with which they are depicted, the isolation of each object, heightened further by the black background, lends them a monumental, almost sculptural gravity." Yes, they do, which can be more clearly seen in another still life by Cotan: Still Life with Game Fowl, vegetables and fruits
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 8/17/07 9:01pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Still Life with Quince" by Cotan
	Next: "The Descent from the Cross" by Peter Paul Rubens c. 1612, (centre panel) Antwerp Cathedral This painting is the central panel of a giant triptych in Antwerp Cathedral. The book: "Its sheer scale, its profound pathos, its rich and saturated colours, its dynamic and flowing composition..."
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farraday Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 8/17/07 10:26pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Descent From the Cross" by Rubens
	Jesus is bleeding adjectives and they're getting everywhere, critics beware. -----signature----- Not photoshopped, digitally enhanced or altered.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 8/18/07 7:14pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Descent From the Cross" by Rubens
	I really like the Cotan. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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